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Velma and her clubfoot destroyed this movie


Her storyline was so cheesy and completely unnecessary. It brought the whole movie down. Also, that comic relief with the dog was lame.

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Pard should have received top billing!! In regards to Velma..She got a man and was acting all cocky because she had some guy to foot the bill!! She treated Roy like crap because she was a low class trashy HO!!

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Her storyline was so cheesy and completely unnecessary. It brought the whole movie down. Also, that comic relief with the dog was lame.


You must not be very old; you sound like you have a serious lack of literary, cinematic and living experience, and that you probably need another ten years worth of the school of hard knocks before you can comprehend some simple concepts such as Velma's fickleness and the dog as plot devices.

Velma is there because she serves to educate Roy that he was much better off to appreciate someone (i.e., Marie) who loved him. And, as far as the "life experience" thing goes, I wasted many of the best years of my life being in love with two women (no, not at the same time) who took advantage of me and my affections; I am the person who's most to blame for letting these things happen and if I had had more sense at the time, I would have followed up on the overtures of a couple of other women friends I had who would have married me if I hadn't been such a clueless idiot. Thus, Velma helps me to understand Roy better, and to identify with him the way I do; I'm sure Roy's situation and experience (and MINE, too) isn't unheard of among guys who have been down that same path in their love lives.

As for Pard and "comic relief," I should like to ask, do you even like dogs? Roy did, naturally; and so do I! And what about Humphrey Bogart, who portrays Roy -- did HE like dogs, too? Well, let's put it this way: the dog, in real life, belonged to none other than Bogie himself

"Comic relief" is something you'll find going farther back than Shakespeare (and he frequently employed the device), all the way back to the ancient Greek plays; it's there to relieve dramatic tension, in order to allow the viewer to "exhale," as it were. And dogs and other pets have a way of relieving dramatic tension, both onscreen and in real life; why do you think programs exist that bring dogs and cats on nursing home visits to interact with the elderly and shut-in residents?



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